The Story of O SIX BY SIX The title Le bateau ivre

The title Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) refers to the poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud

turns up the music

and the projections of our imagination into this ambiguous space in which we find ourselves

not seeing what we’re able to see and at the same experiencing everything we can’t

The Story of O SIX BY SIX The title Le bateau ivreFirst edition of The Story of O by Pauline Reage. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. About The Story of O is a 1954 erotic novel written by French writer Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Rage. Explicit and intense in tone, the work centers on the sexual life and fantasies of O, who engages in sadomasochistic play with her lover and several other figures, both men and women. At the time the novel was written, women